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I originally just wanted to open the order book and take a quick look, but that glance completely wiped out my drowsiness. While everyone is still watching, $TRUMP has already shown fatigue at the high end—its breakout is slowing more and more, its rebounds are getting shorter and shorter, and the closer the price gets to the upper side, the sell orders start pressing down. Before the board was fully live, I opened a long around 2.056. My thinking was very clear then: a low-volume rally can’t hold up and continue; if the follow-through isn’t there, don’t force the chase—wait until it actually turns weaker before you follow. Now 1.544 has already delivered the outcome, with a return of +1770.43%. This short has been closed out very cleanly. Handle the main portion first—close 80%. For the remaining 20%, move the protection level to around the cost basis. If it can still move down, let the profits keep running; if it suddenly bounces back, also hold onto the gains you’ve already locked in. Don’t grind away your patience in a range and then try to regain dignity in a one-way move. Compounding only works if you stay alive—the cost of impulsiveness is often very heavy. If you miss the position, don’t chase; wait for the next round of more comfortable signals. $BTC $ETH

This short position could still pay off—not because I only chased after seeing the dump, but because when price first surged up and then rolled over, I noticed that the buy-side support above was getting increasingly weak. Back then the order book looked quite lively, but there weren’t many people truly willing to take it. I wrote down 0.06816 and 0.05041, and then waited for the price to move on its own to show direction. That choppy period of grinding the market was indeed quite torturous. A few times price tried to push higher and it almost shook me out. Honestly, when you’re itching to trade, it’s easiest to move too impulsively. But I kept rechecking that there was no new support at the high levels—so the short logic hadn’t been broken. In the end, I still held back and didn’t chase by adding. Later, a single dumping candle completely opened the pace: sell pressure kept coming out one after another, and my earlier judgment was finally validated by the market. The result was recorded as +1251.28%. The most comfortable part of this trade isn’t just the outcome—it’s that I wasn’t frightened by a fake breakout into getting off early. If you’ve spent enough time in the crypto circle, you’ll know the real difficulty isn’t just seeing the decline—it’s staying clear-headed during that dull stretch before it drops. It’s not that you go short after it falls; it’s that the problems at the high levels have been there all along. Sometimes patience is worth more than speed of the hand. $BTC $ETH